The Art of Biography Series -- Towards Conscious Change

It takes courage for a human being to reflect on the past, reset the

present and take steps towards a hopeful future for conscious

awareness of diversity, equity, and inclusion. To understand who you

were and who you have become, we are offering a four-week course

leading you through passages of time; revisiting the people and

places that influenced your unfolding destiny and life. This “inner

self” understanding is essential to the task we are being called to

do--to open our hearts to seeing and loving one another, to heal the

racial and social divide.

We invite you to join the AntiRacist Table on a journey of discovery

and healing over four weeks of study and creating together. Our

workshop series weaves together the threads of AntiRacism,

Mindfulness, Biography and Art as an opportunity to explore themes

pertaining to what it means to be human and show up for one

another in this life!

Together we can learn to approach life with the objectivity of a

scientist and the soulfulness of an artist. To experience that our

lives are inherently intelligent; to become increasingly interested in

others; to recognize that we have a valuable role to play; to move

toward the freedom to choose how we see the world and how we ‘be’

in it.

We believe biography and social art is deep inner work that can be

an integral part of racial and social healing. As we look back to our

own cycles of life, we can bear witness to the stages of development

occurring every seven years unfolding throughout a human life span

just as we observe in the rhythms of nature. These reflections can

provide insight for personal growth, transformation, and social

healing.

Dates:

January 19th, January 26th, February 2nd, February 16th Sunday

8:30-11:00am PST 11:30am-2:00am EST

4 week series registration fee: $325

Biography is an account of human life on a path from birth to death.

"Bio" originates from Greek, meaning life and 'graphia," writing. While

Biography can follow a chronological timeline of life events from

birth to death, there are also cyclical events occurring every seven

years unfolding from infant, childhood, adolescent, adulthood into

old age. These stages of development are characterized as

developmental phases, like the caterpillar to butterfly lifecycle and

for the human being reflecting on these phases of one's personal

development, our biography, can help to bring awareness, renewal

and hope about the future.

Caution: Working with Biography and Social Art does have

consequences.

Side effects may include: interest, understanding, empathy, as well

as gratitude; self-knowledge (likely to cause some discomfort), humility and

improved relations.

Each week we will join together for a live 2.5 hour workshop session

working with antiracism principles, mindfulness practice, poetry,

artistic and imaginative prompts to open up biographical

experiences to deepen our understanding of ourselves and others

as we walk the healing path towards individual and collective racial

and social healing. We will participate in small group journaling and

artistic exercises, deep listening while observing confidentiality with

one another and full group sharing and reflections.

All course participants will gain access to our private Nurture the

Narrative virtual circle space to discuss and share with one another

in community.

No previous artistic experience is required.

During our time together we will be working to bring about interest,

empathy, compassion, understanding and therefore awaken

connection within ourselves and with others.

“The highest art, for which all the other art forms are simply a

preparation – is the social art; the meeting of one human being with

another.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our Facilitators:

Lynn Turner (she/her) is a native Washingtonian, wife, and mother of

two children and the proud descendant of enslaved people. She is a

culturally responsive educator who is passionate about teaching

young children and supporting families, work that she has done for

over thirteen years. Lynn holds a BA in Fine Arts from Sweet Briar

College, an MAT in Early Childhood Education from Washington

Trinity University, received her Waldorf Early Childhood Teaching

Certificate in 2017 and is completing her third year of Biography and

Social Arts study. Lynn is the co-founder of the AntiRacist Table

and is honored and committed to facilitate and accompany others

in the exploration of human becoming. She has been published in

Gateways Magazine and has been a workshop presenter for

diversity, equity and inclusion at the 2021 Waldorf Early Childhood

Education Association of Northern America Teacher Conference.

Lynn served on the Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North

America’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access Committee as the

committee co-chair from 2020-2024. Lynn is a member of the Board

for Biography and Social Art, has facilitated Biography workshops

for teachers at Waldorf Early Childhood Education Conferences and

continues to expand this work.

Cathy O’Neill (she/her) joined the LA Council of the Smithsonian this

year and has contributed Biography Work to their gatherings large

and small. She is an Agape Licensed Spiritual Practitioner and a

Certified Diversity Trainer. Cathy is a Biography Worker and has been

part of a consistently ongoing Biography Work group since 2012,

beginning as coordinator and now co-teaching with two other

Biography Workers. She graduated from the Center for Biography

and Social Art Certificate Program in 2016 and is Vice Chair of the

board of Biography and Social Art. Cathy graduated from the

Waldorf Institute of Southern California, Waldorf teacher training,

and is currently their Board Chair. She has served on the Westside

Waldorf School board for

seventeen years and has served on the boards of numerous

community non-profit organizations for the environment, education,

social justice, homelessness and the arts with

additional interests and training in conflict resolution,

communication and writing.

Kirsten Ivey-Colson (she/her), JD has an LLM in Alternative Dispute

Resolution from the George Washington University Law School and

an undergraduate degree in African American Studies and English

from the University of Virginia. She is the great-great-grandaughter

of enslaved African Americans, the mother of a Black teenager, and

highly motivated to contribute to a just and compassionate world.

Kirsten is an active meditation practitioner and a student of

nonviolent communication, conflict resolution, conflict coaching,

neuroscience, happiness, and well-being. She has served as a union

steward, conflict coach, mediator, and as a leader in her son’s

school’s parent of Black students affinity group.

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